Medical Director II, Clinical Research

Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a technology and science community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. We’re looking for an oncology clinical research expert to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

What You'll Do

As a member of the Research Oncology team that supports our Clinical Research unit, you will help develop and oversee Flatiron-led, technology enabled, pragmatically designed clinical trials. You will provide clinical and research leadership to our multifunctional teams that are building transformational digital tools to streamline clinical trials operations and data collection, inform study design, help oncology teams identify patients for research studies, and make clinical trials more widely available wherever patients receive their care. Flatiron conducts clinical trials in a nationwide network of community-based and academic practices that implement Flatiron technologies. The Research Oncology team works to ensure research quality and provide a patient-focused lens to development of new studies and digital products that re-envision the clinical trial landscape. This includes:

• Providing clinical and scientific leadership to teams developing innovative approaches to running clinical research studies, such as novel study design and endpoint development
• Serving as clinical lead for Flatiron’s portfolio of technology-enabled clinical trials, including:
• Scoping and concept formulation in collaboration with life science partners
• Study design and protocol development
• Data and clinical oversight
• Analytic guidance and data interpretation
• Manuscript planning and execution
• Data synthesis and Regulatory interactions
• Leading analyses to evaluate the efficiency of novel clinical trial technology, solutions and operations
• Representing Flatiron at meetings with life science partners, regulators and clinical investigators, and participating in speaking engagements and national committees as a thought leader in pragmatic clinical research
• Providing clinical expertise for new services and products in development that provide value to the clinical research ecosystem
• Contributing to the Clinical Research unit’s strategic development and growth, inclusive of team building and management
• Collaborating with key cross-functional internal and external stakeholders

You’ll work closely with our Research Oncology, Regulatory, Clinical Operations, Clinical Data Management, Pharmacovigilance, Product, Research Sciences, Partnerships and Engineering teams.

Who You Are

You're a kind, passionate, creative, and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. You're a Medical Oncologist with experience in clinical research, who has worked at a bio-pharmaceutical/pharmaceutical company and/or CRO in support of an Oncology therapeutic area. You're excited by the prospect of innovating new ways to conduct clinical trials and rolling up your sleeves to tackle meaningful problems each and every day. You thrive in a fast-paced, multifunctional, team-based work environment at the leading edge of technology and medicine.

• You have the appropriate experience required:
• You have a Medical Degree (MD) and Oncology subspecialty training

• You have 5-7+ years experience working in clinical research/clinical care/drug development, at least 3 of which are in the industry setting (e.g. clinical development, medical affairs, medical monitor)
• You embrace the potential of new healthcare technology, and enjoy thinking about out-of-the box solutions to current trial pain points
• You have a passion for ideating and creating novel trial designs with multiple collaborators
• You have outstanding communication, writing and presentation skills
• You have the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• You have empathy for the challenges that oncologists and research staff face in the pursuit of clinical research
• You are effective at driving collaboration, achieving results, influencing, and resolving conflicts across internal and external project teams
• You can easily explain scientific and clinical concepts to a non-medical, highly sophisticated audience, and have a willingness to teach and learn
• You are self-motivated, autonomous, and are able to prioritize

Extra Credit

• You have formal experience with the FDA or other regulatory bodies
• You have experience as a site PI 
• You have experience with clinical research digital technologies
• You have experience with Flatiron’s real-world data and/or clinical research solutions

Where you’ll work

In this remote position, you have the freedom to choose your preferred work location while aligning your working hours with your team's. For further details on our hybrid work approach and remote work type, please visit the how we work website.

Life at Flatiron 

At Flatiron Health, we offer a full range of benefits to support you and your loved ones so you can focus your working hours on improving cancer care and accelerating cancer research, and your non-working hours on everything else life has to offer: 

• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive compensation package
• 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals
• Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice
• Mental well-being tools and services 
• Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave
• Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption and surrogacy
• Travel support for safe healthcare services

In addition to our robust benefit offerings, visit our Life at Flatiron page to learn how we support continuous learning and celebrate inclusion and belonging in the workplace.